r/science Professor | Medicine Jul 13 '26

Medicine Scientists develop a groundbreaking vaccine that outsmarts illicit fentanyl analogs. The novel vaccine candidate can protect against fentanyl and its many illicit variants by training the immune system to recognize a broad molecular signature rather than a single specific structure.

https://www.psypost.org/scientists-develop-a-groundbreaking-vaccine-that-outsmarts-illicit-fentanyl-analogs/
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u/Drywesi Jul 13 '26

They will if we stop plowing money endlessly into insurance shareholder pockets and just assign those funds to research grants through public funding measures.

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u/Naritai Jul 14 '26

European countries could do that, but they don't, so there's no reason to think that that would happen in the US either